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N4MC: Neural 4D Mesh Compression

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-02-25 v1

Abstract

We present N4MC, the first 4D neural compression framework to efficiently compress time-varying mesh sequences by exploiting their temporal redundancy. Unlike prior neural mesh compression methods that treat each mesh frame independently, N4MC takes inspiration from inter-frame compression in 2D video codecs, and learns motion compensation in long mesh sequences. Specifically, N4MC converts consecutive irregular mesh frames into regular 4D tensors to provide a uniform and compact representation. These tensors are then condensed using an auto-decoder, which captures both spatial and temporal correlations for redundancy removal. To enhance temporal coherence, we introduce a transformer-based interpolation model that predicts intermediate mesh frames conditioned on latent embeddings derived from tracked volume centers, eliminating motion ambiguities. Extensive evaluations show that N4MC outperforms state-of-the-art in rate-distortion performance, while enabling real-time decoding of 4D mesh sequences. The implementation of our method is available at: https://github.com/frozzzen3/N4MC.

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@article{arxiv.2602.20312,
  title  = {N4MC: Neural 4D Mesh Compression},
  author = {Guodong Chen and Huanshuo Dong and Mallesham Dasari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.20312},
  year   = {2026}
}
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